Northumberland Voices: Paper trousers and Red Cross parcels

Extracts from an Oral History interview with Tom Easton.

Tom was born in 1896 and lived in West Sleekburn as a child. He joined the Tyneside Scottish Brigade during the First World War. After training at Alnwick, Tom fought in France and Flanders until he was captured in April 1918. As a prisoner of war, Tom opted to work down a German coalmine near Brambauer in North Rhine-Westphalia.